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As a founding member of the World Poetry Movement in Medellin, Colombia in 2011 and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco in 2009, I was asked to write a Mission statement by the World Poetry Movement toward worldwide poetry events to be held throughout August. My Mission statement is below. Hopes are that events are organized everywhere!—Jack Hirschman, emeritus Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisc.
Corporatism is the fascism that is manifesting in governments throughout the world by producing nationalist and populist leaders of negation and powerful military forces bent on war. Like students murdered en masse in schools in the U.S., like the tsunami of women jailed as drug offenders because work under capitalism makes body and soul miserable, the World Poetry Movement (WPM) and the Revolutionary Poets Brigades say: Basta! Enough!
We know that capitalism is suiciding itself through automation and robotization, which is doing away with human labor and the value of money. It’s time to end the privatization of property and transform the corporations into public institutions distributing commodities to human beings according to their needs.
THERE IS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE BUT COMPLETE NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT IS THE TRUTH ! ! !
The poets of the World Poetry Movement and the Revolutionary Poets Brigades know that truth and therefore are calling for worldwide readings of poetry against war and the military profits that lead to them, at events in every country within reach of this communication throughout the 125th year since the birth of the first street poet and revolutionary of the 20th Century, the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Poets, let’s gather everywhere in readings that will certainly help capitalism kill itself and let the poems of the peoples’ sufferings and hopes sound the drums of tomorrow’s liberty.

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